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101 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210940 | ||
Statistically, (by a huge margin) the group that most often dips into their pocket to help the starving are, Christians. So, God is doing something, something in the hearts of those who follow Him. By the way, friend, how much have you done lately to help the starving? Or is that, or perhaps I should ask, are you, according to your own logic,..... irrelevant. | ||||||
102 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210945 | ||
You speak of evil as something created, it is not. Evil is, just as a hole in the ground, 'is' because of the absence of dirt, but apart from the dirt, there is no hole. Just as apart from good there would be no evil. Evil is allowed by God, but it would be foolish to judge Him by this one act of His permissive will. Evil is not a gift, though it is permitted, and though it is permitted it is not His desire for us to do evil. That is our choice. To do evil is a product of our free will. What will you chose? Lack of faith by the way is the greatest evil, and it is a product of that evil that is the cause of starvation. What will you chose? | ||||||
103 | Why Sarah and her name consedered great | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211584 | ||
Dear Cheri: An excellent post! I'm very proud (the good kind) of you. :-) John |
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104 | Where is "The Heaven" ? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211666 | ||
I'm sure my sleepy little mind is too small for all this information, but please do give this poor nave a tidbit morsel of your divine wisdom. Pray tell us then O Grand Sage, so that we may, though it would be ever so miniscule in comparison to one so great; but perhaps sir, we can still be enlightened? Please sir, where O were is the third Heaven-?! |
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105 | Tyndale gave us our English Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211948 | ||
--"William Tyndale gave us our English Bible. The sages assembled by King James to prepare the Authorized Version of 1611, so often praised for unlikely corporate inspiration, took over Tyndale’s work. Nine-tenths of the Authorized Version’s New Testament is Tyndale’s. The same is true of the first half of the Old Testament, which was as far as he was able to get before he was executed outside Brussels in 1536. Here is a sampling of the English phrases we owe to Tyndale: “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3). “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9) “The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be merciful unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace” (Numbers 6:24-26). “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God” (John 1:1). “There were shepherds abiding in the field” (Luke 2:8). “Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). “Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name” (Matthew 6:9). “The signs of the times” (Matthew 16:3) “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41). “He went out . . . and wept bitterly” (Matthew 26:75). Those two words are still used by almost all modern translations (NIV, NASB, ESV, NKJV). It has not been improved on for five hundred years in spite of weak efforts like one recent translation: “cried hard.” Unlike that phrase, “the rhythm of his two words carries the experience.” “A law unto themselves” (Romans 2:14) “In him we live, move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels” (1 Corinthians 13:1) “Fight the good fight” (1 Timothy 6:12). According to Daniell, “The list of such near-proverbial phrases is endless.” Five hundred years after his great work “newspaper headlines still quote Tyndale, though unknowingly, and he has reached more people than even Shakespeare.” Luther’s translation of 1522 is often praised for “having given a language to the emerging German nation.” Daniell claims the same for Tyndale in English: In his Bible translations, Tyndale’s conscious use of everyday words, without inversions, in a neutral word-order, and his wonderful ear for rhythmic patterns, gave to English not only a Bible language, but a new prose. England was blessed as a nation in that the language of its principal book, as the Bible in English rapidly became, was the fountain from which flowed the lucidity, suppleness and expressive range of the greatest prose thereafter. His craftsmanship with the English language amounted to genius. He translated two-thirds of the Bible so well that his translations endured until today. This was not merely a literary phenomenon; it was a spiritual explosion. Tyndale’s Bible and writings were the kindling that set the Reformation on fire in England.'-- 2006 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors |
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106 | Tyndale gave us our English Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211972 | ||
MJH, Yes sir, William Tindale was a giant of a man, and truly a humble servant of the Almighty God! Tindale gave more to God and His divine purposes in a year (never mind a year, better said: a week!) then most of us could ever hope to do in a lifetime. If you are interested you can read the whole thing at, http://www.desiringgod.org/ I'm not sure how it will appear to you but on my browser, (Resource Library) is found on the left near the top of the home page. Where you find it, click and then scroll to Biographies, Where you will find it titled as: Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible --------------------------------------- Why William Tyndale Lived and Died you can read the text or listen to John Piper give his impassioned rendition as only John can do, and in such a uniquely wonderful way that never fails to inspire this poor saint's heart to a desire to action! There are many more short biographies there, brother John has quite a library, his website has enough to keep someone busy for quite a while. God bless John p.s. Thanks for bringing John Piper's website back to my attention, it lead me to notice a notice that I'd not heeded in my post ID# 211948 subject heading: Tyndale gave us our English Bible -- May I take this opportunity to give proper credit where it is due, and offer my apologies to the forum for my oversight. Post ID# 211948 was excerpted from a short biography: By John Piper. © Desiring God. Website: desiringGod.org |
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107 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 212252 | ||
Hello flyman: You wrote: "I want to follow my Lord the correct way and if it requires me to sell my possessions and give to the poor, then I must obey." Hey buddy, I'm poor, would you like me to give you my address? :-) Sorry for my little joke. But I really don't think He is saying all His followers are to sell all there possessions and give to the poor. What He is doing is letting this rich young man know, that he is far from keeping all His commandments, because this man is putting money before God, so he isn't even keeping the first commandment to, love the Lord thy God, and not to have any god's before Him, which this man is doing by putting his faith in his riches. Remember that the man was not asking how we are to follow Jesus or how to act after we are saved, but he was asking how to attain eternal life; there is a big difference. God bless John |
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108 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 212269 | ||
Amen brother, WOS! Good post! | ||||||
109 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 212287 | ||
Flyman, you did not answer KcabmI4! That is not true! The thread can be easily followed, and you most certainly did not answer him! So stop blaming your misunderstanding's on a post deletion, that has nothing whatsoever to do with all the good advice you have been given, and chosen to ignore! It's time for you to get off your post-deletion hobby-horse and move on! John |
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110 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 212296 | ||
Flyman, I am going to say this as kindly as I can at this point. Sir, it is time for you to stop and reflect on what has been said to you, and prayerfully consider it, all of it. And for you to stop this debate that you have firmly entrenched yourself. In easily understandable English, flyman, KNOCK IT OFF-!! John |
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111 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 212299 | ||
By the way flyman. Your post, that got deleted, that you claim is in response to, KcabmI4, was posted at 3:11pm, now that is interesting, because his post was posted at 4:23pm. WOW! That means you answered his post over an hour before he posted it! Dude! ARE YOU MAGIC! Seriously flyman, stop the pretending, grow up, and start telling the truth. Okay? John |
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112 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 212307 | ||
Flyman, Sir, once again you are having a problem with the truth. I remember very well what the content of the later post was about, and it was nothing but a complaint about your other post(s) being deleted. Really, flyman, how long will you continue with this charade? Friend, this is a bible study forum not a debate forum. And frankly, friend, it's impossible to take you seriously when you say you have to follow Jesus to the literal letter of the law, but when you continue to promulgate lies, then it's really all for nothing isn't it? John |
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113 | The United Stated in the Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 213002 | ||
Hi Cheri... If I may jump in here... I believe the point is, to bring our focus back to where it belongs. Christ! It's ALL about Christ! To even look for some sort of correlation between Israel and the US, or to even think Israel has very much to do with it is rather an obtuse view of what Scripture is all about. It's about Christ! John |
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114 | The United Stated in the Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 213004 | ||
Try reading it now with Him in mind and just let Him speak to you. He is our all in all, and our thinking that we can somehow effect our own understanding by focusing on all the details is how we lose focus on Him. I think that was the point of the post. That's what He (Jesus) was trying to tell the Pharisees/Jews as Goldsworthy point's out. But they didn't get it either. John |
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115 | The United Stated in the Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 213011 | ||
Dear Cheri... Oh Cheri! You, are a jewel, my dear friend. Yes indeed, sometimes Doc can be hard to understand. But the better I get to know him, the more I understand that, he most always strives to bring our focus in our studies to Christ. It's ALL about Him. :-) Hellooo! LOL God bless John |
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116 | Important question that im need help in | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 213378 | ||
Hebrews 9:27 | ||||||
117 | Spirit of God | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 213761 | ||
If I may please just add my two little cents? I think this could help with the question of how we identify what the carictoristics of a believer who is being lead by the Spirit of God may be. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit." Gal 5:22-25 |
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118 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 213764 | ||
You would do well indeed to study the man. Before you judge him. "He preached over 600 times before he was 20 years old. His sermons sold about 20,000 copies a week and were translated into 20 languages. The collected sermons fill 63 volumes equivalent to the 27 volume ninth edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, and "stands" as the largest set of books by a single author in the history of Christianity" "Not a week went by in his mature ministry that souls were not saved through his written sermons." "At his 50th birthday a list of 66 organizations was read that he founded and conducted. Lord Shaftesbury was there and said, "This list of associations, instituted by his genius, and superintended by his care, were more than enough to occupy the minds and hearts of fifty ordinary men"" "He typically read six substantial books a week and could remember what he read and where to find it. He produced more than 140 books of his own." He often worked 18 hours in a day. The missionary David Livingstone, asked him once, "How do you manage to do two men's work in a single day? Spurgeon replied, "You have forgotten there are two of us". In Colossians 1:29. Paul says, "I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me." The year he turned 40 he delivered a message to his pastors' conference with the one-word title, "Forward!". In it he said, "In every minister's life there should be traces of stern labour. Brethren, do something; do something; DO SOMETHING. While Committees waste their time over resolutions, do something. While Societies and Unions are making constitutions, let us win souls. Too often we discuss, and discuss, and discuss, while Satan only laughs in his sleeve ... Get to work and quit yourselves like men" The apostle Paul saw that the outer nature was wasting away. And what kept him going was the abiding assurance that this momentary affliction is working for him an eternal glory. And so he looked to the things that are eternal (2 Cor. 4:16-18). So did Spurgeon. He said, "Meditate with deep solemnity upon the fate of the lost sinner ... Shun all views of future punishment which would make it appear less terrible, and so take off the edge of your anxiety to save immortals from the quenchless flame ... Think much also of the bliss of the sinner saved. There will be no fear of your being lethargic if you are continually familiar with eternal realities" "In comparing one ministerial identity with another he reminded other pastors that at the last supper there was a chalice for drinking the wine and there was a basin for washing feet. Then he said," "I protest that I have no choice whether to be the chalice or the basin. Fain would I be whichever the Lord wills so long as He will but use me ... So you, my brother, you may be the cup, and I will be the basin; but let the cup be a cup, and the basin a basin, and each one of us just what he is fitted to be. Be yourself, dear brother, for, if you are not yourself, you cannot be anybody else; and so, you see, you must be nobody ... Do not be a mere copyist, a borrower, a spoiler of other men's notes. Say what God has said to you, and say it in your own way; and when it is so said, plead personally for the Lord's blessing upon it" Near the end of his life (1890) in (I believe his last) address to his pastors' conference he compares adversity and the ebb of truth to the ebbing tide. "You never met an old salt, down by the sea, who was in trouble because the tide had been ebbing out for hours. No! He waits confidently for the turn of the tide, and it comes in due time. Yonder rock has been uncovered during the last half-hour, and if the sea continues to ebb out for weeks, there will be no water in the English Channel, and the French will walk over from Cherbourg. Nobody talks in that childish way, for such an ebb will never come. Nor will we speak as though the gospel would be routed, and eternal truth driven out of the land. We serve an almighty Master ... If our Lord does but stamp His foot, He can win for Himself all the nations of the earth against heathenism, and Mohammedanism, and Agnosticism, and Modern-though, and every other foul error. Who is he that can harm us if we follow Jesus? How can His cause be defeated? At His will, converts will flock to His truth as numerous as the sands of the sea ... Wherefore be of good courage, and go on your way singing [and preaching!]: The winds of hell have blown The world its hate hath shown, Yet it is not o'erthrown. Hallelujah for the Cross! It shall never suffer loss! The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Excerpeted from: http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Biographies1469_Charles_Spurgeon_Preaching_Through_Adversy/ Yes, my friend, Charles Hadden Spurgeon, can rightly be called, The Prince of preachers! John |
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119 | Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 213766 | ||
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120 | This generation will not pass away.... | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 214210 | ||
Hi Vintage68 There is a great deal of misunderstanding about the word Generation used in the Bible. We need to be careful to understand what it means in context because the term varies quite a bit from passage to passage and verse to verse. John Smith's Bible Dictionary Generation Genesis 2:4, "These are the generations," means the "history." 5:1, "The book of the generations," means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, "The generations of Jacob" equals the history of Jacob and his descendants. 7:1, "In this generation" equals in this age. Psalms 49:19, "The generation of his fathers" equals the dwelling of his fathers, i.e., the grave. Psalms 73:15, "The generation of thy children" equals the contemporary race. Isaiah 53:8, "Who shall declare his generation?" equals His manner of life who shall declare? or rather equals His race, posterity, shall be so numerous that no one shall be able to declare it. In Matthew 1:17, the word means a succession or series of persons from the same stock. Matthew 3:7, "Generation of vipers" equals brood of vipers. 24:34, "This generation" equals the persons then living contemporary with Christ. 1 Peter 2:9, "A chosen generation" equals a chosen people. The Hebrews seem to have reckoned time by the generation. In the time of Abraham a generation was an hundred years, thus: Genesis 15:16, "In the fourth generation" equals in four hundred years (comp. verse 13 and Exodus 12:40). In Deuteronomy 1:35 and 2:14 a generation is a period of thirty-eight years. |
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